The laundromat in my neighbourhood does something more than wash dirty laundry. It’s not a case of illegal goings on, quite the opposite. The workers at Bubbleworks, in New York’s…
—architecture, essay, contributions, contributors, Política, politics
“The last man, man of the street, man of the crowd, man of the masses, mass-man; that’s how THEY represented Bloom to us at first: as the sad product of…
—essay, contributions, House and Contradiction, infrastructure, vivienda
(Català) La preservació ha tornat al centre de la teoria i la pràctica arquitectònica després de llanguir al marges durant més de mig segle. Tan sols una dècada enrere, hagués estat impossible pensar que les fites en aquest camp serien assentades per diversos i importants projectes de restauració.
—essay, Guest, issues, PreservatalBuit
The three reconstructions completed in 1986 in Barcelona (Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos), Madrid (Josep Quetglas) and Milan (OMA/Rem Koolhaas)…illustrate three histories of the Modern Movement that use the pavilion as a historiographic argument.
—essay, issues, Preservat al Buit
Particularly acute today among urbanists and bureaucrats—for whom efficiency is an almost erotic obsession—infrastructuralism is a modern pathology in which the rhetoric and imagery of managerial discourse serve to erase any differentiation between primary and reflexive modernization.
—essay, infrastructure, May, Parainfrastructures